Taoist Soap Quotes & Sayings

They know and do not know, that acting is suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed
To an eternal action, an eternal patience
To which all must consent that it may be willed
And which all must suffer that they may will it,
That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action
And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still
Be forever still. — T. S. Eliot

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted. — Mark Strand

I had a choice: to quail, or to harden.

I hardened. — Jeanne Kalogridis

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. — Jane Rule

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style. — Ilan Stavans

I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn. — I.B. Nosey

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. — Guy Kawasaki

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. — Raymond Williams